Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chess champions are rarely swashbucklers. They call their ties "cravats" and tie them neatly but docilely; they wear their hats on the middle of their hard round heads. Among the gentlemen at Moscow is the imperturbable veteran, Dr. Emanuel Lasker, who slightly resembles his late fellow-countryman, Dr. Immanuel Kant. The years have failed to shake his prestige; he looks on tempests and is never shaken. The shrewd American, Marshall, did well in the first rounds of the tournament; the great Russian, Bogoljubow, lived up to expectations; a young man named Torre rose like a red ascending star...
...many months the Treasury Department has been puzzling over the expense of furnishing the country with currency. Working at capacity the Bureau of Printing and Engraving has hardly been able to keep up with the demand for fresh dollar bills as those in use wear out. It has been obliged to put "fresh" bills into circulation without allowing them to age and toughen. The result is that they have worn out even more rapidly. Other factors, the handling of paper money by garage men with greasy hands, etc., have contributed toward making the life of dollar bills shorter and shorter...
...frills and furbelows will bedeck their billowing bosoms; no petticoats will swathe their fattish calves; no bushy beards will sway from their chubby chins. No more will they, wearing what-the-gentlemen-will-wear, rush into night clubs. No more will their handsome features peer through a peekhole in a door behind which 200 topers are toping; and no more will their portly bodies enter to find a single toper dizzily sipping ginger beer. No more need wedding guests lifting their bubbling-stemmed glasses to the bride, fear sudden descent of those twain, snatching the twinkling beverage from their lips...
Despatches also announced that hereafter frock coats must be worn by Turkish officials at all government functions. Since the cost of such a garment aggregates nearly $175 in Angora, while the average monthly salary of a Turkish official is about $60, the Government has instituted special "pay as you wear" credit facilities...
...Harvard "ten" which played McGEI University on Jarvis Field in 1874, the first team to represent the University in football, did not wear the letter. Their uniform consisted of ordinary civilian long trousers, white undershirts, and they also wore Magenta handkerchiefs bound around their heads...